Listed Buildings & Places
BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES IN THE PARISH OF STITHIANS.
Stithians has many historic places.
Department of the Environment LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST DISTRICT OF KERRIER PARISH OF STITHIANS CORNWALL
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SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/239: Boundary Stone at SW747357 GV II
Boundary stone. Circa early C19. Round headed rectangular on plan dressed granite monolith inscribed with 1 on its face.
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/429: Footbridge at SW 731375
Footbridge over stream. Circa early C19. Granite rubble with granite monolithic lintels. Wrought iron handrail. Single span bridge of simple lintelled construction. Handrails are carried on simple iron stanchions. No parapet.
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/240 GV II
Guide post. Circa early C19. Dressed granite monolith with flat head. Probably square on plan, set diagonally into a stone wall, (Cornish hedge) so that two of its sides face the road. These sides have incised inscriptions. Left hand side inscription: KENNALL MILLS & Co Right hand side inscription: HELSTON. There are hand pointers under both inscriptions.
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/241 Guide post at SW735373 II
Guide post. Circe early C20. Manufactured by Oatley and Martyn Ltd Wadebridge. Cast iron. Round on plan shaft with 3 adjustable pointers over a moulded cornice and surmounted by a moulded spike headed finial. Square ended pointers have embossed inscriptions. Left hand pointer; PENHALVEAN 2, REDRUTH 5. Middle pointer; PERRANWELL 3 ½, PENRYN 4 ¼, TRURO 8 ½. Right hand pointer; GWENNAP 2, LANNER 3.
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/242 Milestone at SW705384 GV II
Milestone. Circa early C19. dressed granite monolith. Rectangular on plan. Post has pointed head and incised inscription to side facing road: REDRUTH 2 ¼, CARN, MENELLIS, HELSTON
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/243 Milestone at SW741374 II
Milestone. Circa early C19. Round headed pointed granite monolith with incised inscription FROM TRURO 8 MILES. Ordnance survey bench mark under
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
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Seureaugh Mill and barn immediately to the west (previously listed as Sewrah Mill and outhouse to west) 17.1.80 II Mill and detached granary/barn. Probably late C18 or early C19 mill remodelled circa late C19. Circa early C19 barn. Granite rubble walls with granite dressings. Roof of mill fallen, hipped on the left, gable end adjoining cottages on the right. Roof of the barn has few scantle slates, half hipped. Plan; Rectangular mill with machinery intact but decaying, overshot wheel in Wheel pit on the left and left of the wheel pit and 2 storey granary/bank barn With stone steps on its right hand side. There are central opposing loading and winnowing doorways. Adjoining in front of the left hand side of the barn is a single storey range of 4 stables or pig stys. Exterior: 2 storeys. Both barn and mill have symmetrical 2 window fronts with Central doorways. The barn is lower and has first floor loading doorway. Mill Has pane window visible to ground floor right of mill. The iron waterwheel has its central hub and outer rim. Interior: Mill has its original floors and machinery. The machinery has iron wheels with wooden teeth. There is a sack hoist and an auger for filling sacks. The mill stones were hidden by falling debris at the time of the survey. [These buildings are presently undergoing restoration with Listed Building consent and Planning Permission granted for the works.]
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS
2/245 Tregonning Mill (Formerly listed as Tregonning Mill with adjoining cottages) II
Miller’s houses, mill and adjoining outbuildings. Circa early-mid C19. Granite walls with granite dressings. Mill and outbuildings have grouted scantle slate roofs with gable ends, house roofs are replaced with asbestos slate. Brick chimneys over the gable ends and over party wall of the houses. Left hand chimney rises above taller gable of integral mill. Plan Double depth plan houses; mill is same depth as houses and at the front appears to be integral with the house on its right. Outbuildings on the left are hallower. Mill and part of the adjoining house are probably the oldest building,slightly later the house plan was probably deepened; a little later another house was added at the right hand end and single storey outbuildings were added at the left hand end. The mill was probably heightened when the first house was remodelled.. Both houses have 2 rooms at the front flanking central cross passages and have stair and service rooms at the rear. Breast shot wheel and machinery survive. Exterior; Mill is 2 storeys plus attic floor; houses are 2 storeys and Outbuildings are single storey. South east front. Mill has two window front with central doorway with loading doorway over. The front was originally symmetrical but left hand window opening was enlarged to create a tall doorway in the C19. Old divided ledged doors and old windows. First floor left hand window is possibly original 12 pane 2 light casement. Cast iron ogee guttering under the eaves. There is a corrugated iron clad dormer with wooden hoisting boom formerly used to hoist sacks of grain through a doorway to be emptied into the hoppers built into the attic floor. Houses have similar symmetrical 3 window fronts with central doorways. Right hand house has blocked window over its doorway. This house has an old ledged door and circa late C19 horned sashes. Other house has similar C20 windows. Outbuildings (probably stables and wagon sheds) have irregularly disposed window and doorway openings with some late C19 windows and doors. Mill wheel has iron hub and segments and wooden spokes and buckets. Interior; Mill only inspected. The mill has C19 floors, roof structure and machinery. There are two pairs of stones on the first floor. The attic floor has hoppers at either side of an axial working floor. The mill was still working until a few years ago and has well preserved machinery. [This mill has been subsequently converted to a dwelling in the 1990’s. It is believed that the machinery has been mostly retained and enclosed in transparent material.]
SW 73 NW – STITHIANS
2/246 Treweege Barton Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Roughly coursed rubble with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roof sweeping lower at rear with brick chimneys over the Gable ends. Cast iron ogee section gutters. Plan; Double depth plan with wider kitchen/living room on left; parlour on the right probably flanking a through passage leading to stair hall between rear service rooms. At the rear middle is a porch with integral washhouse and at the right hand end is a circa mid C19 probably dairy with loft over. Exterior; 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front with doorway central to the fenestration. C20 door. Original 16 pane hornless sashes on the left, otherwise horned copies. One window front of lower C19 extension at far right. Interior; not inspected but probably has original carpentry and joinery.
SW73 NW - STITHIANS
2/247 Barn and adjoining outbuilding immediately West of Treweege Barton farmhouse. GV II
Bank barn with adjoining horse engine house, cartshed and stables. Circa mid C19.Granite rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate hipped roof on barn and semi circular ended roof to horse engine house, ortherwise asbestos slate. Plan; Long rectangular barn built into bank at the rear and with opposing loading/winnowing doorways to the loft/granary plus a semi circular ended horse engine house at right angles to rear, middle, and later C19 single storey range of cartsheds and stables at left hand end. Exterior; Two storeys. Overall four window east front with symmetrical two window front on the left with central doorways and wider slightly irregular two window front on the right. Narrow doorway between the two integral fronts. There is a steep flight of granite steps to the loading doorway towards right. Original openings (2 partly blocked) some old ledged doors, window shutters and some reused sashes. Interior; Not inspected. [Planning permission and Listed Building Consent were granted for conversion of these buildings to holiday let dwellings, works not yet completed.]
SW 73 NW – HENDRA
1532/2/248 United Methodist Free Church GV II*
Non conformist (United Methodist Free Church) 1865 date plaque. MATERIALS; Faced granite entrance front with rock faced basement as plinth and rusticated granite dressings, otherwise granite rubble to openings spanned by granite lintels; dry Delabole slate roof with pedimented gable at front. PLAN: Rectangular aisle less plan plus canted organ loft over vestry to centre of the rear (ritual E end). Entrance hall and pair of gallery staircases at the front, gallery to 4 sides; school room in basement. C1900 small chapel built over small trap-house and stable at right. EXTERIOR: Complete and unaltered 2 storey elevations over basement as plinth. Symmetrical 3 window N entrance front with triangular pediment enclosing oculus with date and rectangular panel with name; basement as plinth, mid floor string, rusticated quoins and surrounds. Wide elliptically arched central pilastered rusticated granite doorway with with spoked fanlight over original pair of panelled doors. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads under semi circular arches to 1st floor and segmental arches over 9 pane fixed lights to ground floor. 3 window range side elevations with 12 pane horned sashes and similar sashes at rear.
INTERIOR; Is fine and virtually unaltered; moulded plaster ceiling cornices, ornate domed central rose with acanthus detail and enriched proscenium arch on consoles; original staircase to front entrance hall between vestry and basement; gallery to 4 sides with oval ends, the painted panelled front cantilevered out on shaped brackets and supported on slender Tuscan columns in the basement. Unaltered vestry and small meeting room at ritual east end.
FITTINGS; Original panelled box pews with ramped ends; fine trefoil-plan painted rostrum over panelled base and moulded cornices, the rostrum approached by quadrant on plan open string staircases with turned balusters; bowed mahogany communion rail on ornate spandrelled cast iron balusters; late C19th tripartite piped organ, the centrepiece arched with pieced spandrels and crested above the entablature; late C19th pews replacing former loose (free) benches at the sides of the lower level. Original fittings, including rostrum, also to schoolroom.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES; Original wrought iron balustrades with ramped handrails; turned cast iron newels. Penmennor is a very complete example of a larger chapel, with good gallery, box pews and originally with loose benches to the side, one of only 3 examples of larger galleried chapels with this feature, the others being Porkellis (Grade II* and now redundant) in Wendron Parish and Vogue Beloth (at Grade II*) at Illogan.
Dated 14th April 1999 Signed by authority of Secretary of State M Parsons Department for Culture Media and Sport [Planning permission has been granted for creation of a car park on part of the field between the Chapel and former caretakers cottage, with the proviso that the existing car park entrance be closed]
SW 73 NW - STITHIANS HENDRA
2/249 Gate piers, walls, gates and railings to road frontage in front of United Methodist Free Church GV II
Gate piers, walls gates and railings in front of Methodist Chapel. Date stone on chapel. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Iron railings and gates. Square on plan piers. There are two entrances; a wide carriage entrance on the left set back with concave quadrant on plan flanking walls and a wide gateway aligned with the doorway of the chapel. The latter gateway is flanked by low ashlar plinths and there are terminal piers at either end. C20th railings are possibly copied from original railings. Principal piers have monolithic shafts and moulded caps with squat pyramidal heads. Railings have fleur de lys finials. On the right, the rubble walls have granite copings.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS – HENDRA
2/250 The Old Forge GV II
Blacksmiths house. Circa Mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted slate half hipped roof with C20 brick chimneys over side walls. Plan; Double depth plan with two front rooms flanking a central passage landing to a large rear entrance hall and stair. Left hand room is wider, probably the original kitchen/living room with back kitchen behind; right hand room is probably original rear porch. Exterior; 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window east front with doorway central to fenestration. Possibly original panelled door with top pane of glass. Circa late C19th or C20 6 pane horned sashes. Rear is unspoiled and has gable ended stone porch right of middle. Possibly original 6 pane hornless sashes to first floor openings, horned copy to ground floor right, otherwise C20 windows in original openings. Ground floor openings have granite lintels, first floor openings have segmental brick arches. Interior; Where inspected has original carpentry and joinery, details including dog leg stair with stick balusters and turned newels.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS HENDRA
2/251 Hendra House GV II
House. Circa mid C19. Coursed granite rubble with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate half hipped roof with pierced crested clay ridge tiles. Rendered brick chimneys over the side walls. Plan; Double depth plan with probably two rooms at the right flanking an entrance hall leading to stair hall between the service room. The right hand front room is wider probably a kitchen/living room. Exterior; 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window north north east front with doorway and window over slightly left of middle. C20 6 panel door with overlight. Original 12 pane hornless sashes to the first floor, horned copies to ground floor. Interior; Not inspected
SW73 NW STITHIANS HENDRA
2/252 Wesley Chapel including walls gate piers, gates and railings at road frontage. (Formerly listed as Wesleyan Chapel) 10.5.57 II GV
Wesleyan Chapel and adjoining school room. Datestone 1814. Stuccoed elevations. Dry Delabole slate roof with pedimented gables at entrance front. Plan: Overall L shaped plan including later schoolroom. Chapel is a rectangular aisle less plan with gallery on 4 sides. The entrance and stair hall is at the east end and the rostrum is at the West (ritual east) end. Large schoolroom adjoins the west end and this has a heated wing at right angles to its right hand(north) side. Exterior; 2 storey elevations. Symmetrical 4 window east entrance front with 2 wide elliptically arched doorways towards left and right. Each doorway has its original flush beaded panelled doors and elliptical fanlight. IN front of the doorways is a tetrastyle prostyle Tuscan porch with moulded entablature. The square column like corners of the front Are broken forward; first floor windows (probably Cira 1900) have arched lights and coloured glass to the spandrels. There are moulded hoods on consoles over the windows and the pediment and flanking ‘columns’ have moulded cornices. The side walls have their original 16 pane hornless sashes (4 windows to each side on 2 floors).
Schoolroom has a 3 window front (left hand wall) facing the road and its opposite wall is a symmetrical two window gable ended front with central doorway and 2 roundheaded windows with coloured glass.
Interior: has all its circa 1860’s fittings and features. There is a cantilevered gallery carried on paired brackets over Tuscan columns. Box pews, bow fronted rostrum.
Sources: An inventory of Nonconformist Chapels by Christopher Snell, RCHM
[Converted to a carpet warehouse and subsequently to dwellings in early C21]
SW 72 NW STITHIANS HENDRA
2/253 Hendra Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. Early C19. Roughly coursed granite rubble with granite dressings. Fairly steep grouted scantle slate roof sweeping low at rear. Brick chimneys over the gable ends. Cast iron gutters with lions’ heads to those at front.
Plan: Double depth plan with two similar sized rooms at the front with cranked through passage between leading to stair hall, back kitchen left hand room and pantry behind right hand room.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical three window south east front with doorway central to fenestration. Old door with two bottom panels and top panels later glazed. Circa late C19 4 pane hornless sashes in orginal openings. Rear has its original ledged door and 16 pane hornless sashes except for original casement window to pantry.
Interior: Not inspected, but probably retains its original plan and structural features.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS HENDRA
2/254 Hendra Cottage and Mabel’s Cottage GV II
Pair of cottages, possibly originally 1 house. Datestone inscribed NME 1718 on stone chimney. Granite rubble walls with granite moorstone dressings. Left hand cottage (Hendra Cottage) has grouted scantle slate roof sweeping lower at rear. C18 crested clay ridge tiles and cast iron ogee section gutter, the other cottage roof is replaced with asbestos slate. External stone stack with brick chimney over the right hand gable end. Plan: Present plan is probably a C19 remodelling and extension of the original plan. Double depth plan with large room at the front of each cottage and entrances towards the middle. Service rooms in old rear outshut behind Hendra Cottage and in C20 remodelled outshut behind Mabel’s Cottage. Exterior: 2 storeys. Overall fairly regular 4 window north front with 2 doorways towards the middle. Hendra Cottage has C20 door and circa C19 pane hornless sashes (also unspoiled at the rear). Mabel’s cottage has wide opening with adjoining doorway and window. C20 door and C20 12 pane sashes. The chimney is inscribed on its right hand (gable ) side. Interiors; Not inspected. [A large cloam oven was found in Mabel’s Cottage when it was renovated in the C20, whether this feature was retained is unknown]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/255 Kennall Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. Circa early or mid C19 extended later C19. Roughly coursed granite rubble with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate hipped roofs. Brick chimneys over the side walls and over former gable end of original kitchen with at rear left towards rear. Cast iron ogee gutters.
Plan; Double depth plan with 2 originally equal sized rooms at the front (left hand room now deeper taking in former axial passage). Kitchen in wing at right angles behind left hand room, stair hall behind right hand room and pantry in wing at right angles behind stair. Circa late C19 an l-room cottage was added behind the kitchen and this has a lean to on its right hand side. Now one house.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window south front with central doorway. Old ledged door with over light. Circa late C19 two pane horned sashes. Right hand side has original 12 pane hornless sashes and original pantry window covered in zinc gauze. There is an original 16 pane sash in the left hand wall to the chamber over the kitchen.
Interior; Not inspected but has its original stair and most of its original carpentry and joinery. This farmhouse has an interesting unaltered planned group of farm buildings qv. [Several windows have been replaced in recent years with Listed Building consent.]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/256 Cartsheds, stables and piggery at approximately from 10 metres North of Kennall Farmhouse. GV II
Cartshed, stables and piggery. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof over stables and piggery with ends adjoining barn (qv) on the left and cartshed on the right. Corrugated asbestos half hipped roof over cartshed. Plan: Overall L shaped group with long stable and piggery range built into a bank at the rear and an open fronted cartshed at right angles in front of the right hand end. Exterior: Single storey. South front has doorway to each of three stables or Loose boxes on the left. Two pair of doorways with ventilators over the doorway,possible swill kitchen on the right. Interior: Not inspected [These buildings were converted to dwellings with Listed Building Consent in late C20]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/257 Barn and horse engine house at approximately 100 metres west of Kennall Farmhouse GV II
Barn and horse engine house. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle hipped roofs. Cast iron ogee gutters. Plan; L shaped plan barn with short arm of the L projecting at right angles in front of the right hand side and a canted horse engine house projecting behind the middle of the long arm of the L. Right hand part of the barn is built into a bank on the right. There are two pairs of opposing loading/winnowing doorways in the longer part of the barn, a flight of stone steps behind the right hand doorways and another flight of stone steps behind the far right hand side give access to another loading doorway. The groundfloor has wagon sheds under the threshing floors and there are stables or loose boxes and possibly an original shippon in the right hand part. First floor is a granary and fodder store. Horse engine house has opposing Doorways at the sides and slit windows in the sides of the canted end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations with original door and window openings. Many of the openings have their original ledged doors and there are barred windows with internal shutters. There is one 16 pane 2 light casement. Symmetrical 4 window east front has 5 doorw3ays to the ground floor including wide wagon doorway with loading doorways over, towards the left and right. Left hand wagon doorway is partly blocked. Interior: Not inspected, except for horse engine house which has no machinery but original roof structure and beams for carrying former machinery. [Also converted to dwellings in late C20 with Listed Building Consent]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/258 Gate piers and flanking walls at approximately 260 metres south west of Kennall Vale House GV II
Gate piers and flanking walls. Early C19. Granite rubble walls with square edged dressed granite copings and round headed granite monolithic gate piers. Wide gateway is flanked by square on plan piers and concave quadrant on plan walls.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/259 Kennall Vale Mill and Former millers house. GV II
Mill and millers house. Parts of mill and house are probably C18, extended in C19 and C20. Granite rubble walls with granite dressings. House is rendered and parts of mill are slurried or painted. Grouted scantled and dry Delabole roofs to taller mill buildings, except for some asbestos slate to left hand cross gable, and to lower range adjoining road, otherwise replaced with corrugated asbestos and there is corrugated iron or asbestos over C20 additions. All roofs have gable ends. Plan: Large irregular plan with long rectangular 2 storey and 3 storey mill range at the rear with 2 adjoining wings projecting in front of the right hand side of the 3 storey part and at the far right a formerly detached mill. Now linked by C20 structure, gable end onto the front. Adjoining at an obtuse angle to the middle of the front of the left hand mill is a lower probably store. Adjoining in front of the three storey mill is a former two room plan millers House with central lobby or cross passage. At its left hand end is an external rubble stack and there is a C20 extension on its right. There is a wheel pit behind the left hand side of the mill and possibly there is some machinery. An intact leat runs parallel to the rear of the mill and probably fed overshot wheels. Exterior: Two storeys and three storeys. South east fronts. Mill has two storey front on the left and three storey front with two adjoining gable ended wings projecting from the middle and right hand side of the front. At far right is the gable end of a two storey mill. There are some old windows including (towards left) an 18 pane sash with nine pane fixed light over. Mill house has symmetrical two window front with central doorway. Possibly early C19 12 lane casements to first floor,later sashes below. Ledged door. Interior: Not inspected but possibly there is some machinery.
SW 73 N STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/260 Office stables and wagon sheds immediately east of Kennall Mill. GV II
Office stables and wagon sheds. Circa mid late C19 Granite rubble with Granite dressings. Office has original scantle slate roof with projecting eaves and verges with shaped and pierced barge boards. Wagon sheds have corrugated iron roofs with rubble gable ends. Plan; An irregular single depth range; on the left hand cartshed with integral stables or loose boxes; in the middle a cranked on plan open fronted wagon shed and set back on the right a single cell heated office. Exterior; Single storey. Stable block on left has original sliding planked doors and windows with shutters and the bottom and top lights. Wagon shed has central stone pier between two otherwise open fronts. Office has doorway n the left with original eight panel door with fielded panels and overlight with the word OFFICE in gilt letters and in the middle of the right hand wall is the original 12 pane hornless sash with lower half boarded over.Interior: Not inspected.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/261 Bridge immediately South of Kennall Vale Mill. GV II
Road bridge over River Kennall. Probably C18 with C19 parapets. Four span bridge of post and lintel construction. Low granite monoliths supporting large roughly hewn granite lintels. The parapets above are built of C20 quarried random granite rubble.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/262 Kennall Vale House, including adjoining garden walls, gate piers and gates GV II*
Small country house adjoining including garden walls and gate piers. Circa 1830. Stuccoed walls. Slurried scantle rood hipped around square lead flat and behind parapets to garden fronts and entrance front. Stuccoed brick chimneys, one chimney over rear wall of each rear room. Rear wings have low pitched roofs corrugated iron. Plan; Double depth plan with two fairly large reception rooms at the principal Garden front (deeper principal parlour on left). Kitchen behind the left hand room; entrance hall behind right hand room leading to central rear stair hall and study, behind entrance hall. At the rear is an original and complete service courtyard flanked by two similar two storey service wings whose doorways are linked to the house by an open lean to cloister. The service wings have first floor loading doorways. At the rear of the courtyard is a high retaining wall with a central gateway to a flight of stone steps down to the courtyard and under the steps is an integral dog kennel. The plan and function of all the rooms is unaltered since built. Exterior; Two storeys. Virtually complete elevations with original stuccoed Features. With high plinth, mid floor band with Vitruvian scroll, moulded Parapet cornice and plain parapet; originally doors and windows. Symmetrical 1:1:1 bay south east garden front with bowed bays at left and right. Central bay has arched niche to each floor. Nearly symmetrical 3 window north east entrance front has doorway slightly right of Tuscan porch. Windows are hornless sashes with thin glazing bars. Ellipticaly arched stair window and traveried head. Interior; has most of its original features including mahogany panelled doors; moulded architraves with lions heads in the corner blocks; open well stair with mahogany handrail scrolled over the newel; marble chimney pieces in the front reception rooms; fine plasterwork with trailing bands and a cross vault over the junction between the axial and cross passage. Service rooms are also unaltered and were fuel stores and pantries to the ground floor and probably apple stores or servants quarters above. Parallel to the rear of the house is a high rubble retaining wall with square Edged granite copings. There is a narrow gateway towards the left. The gate piers are integral with the walls and rise as square chamfered heads above the walls. Small gateways have their original wrought iron gates with roundels to the lock rails, arched top rails, ball and steeple finials and arrow headed finials over the top rails. At the left hand end of the garden the wall returns at right angles to the front. Kennall Vale house is one of the most interesting and complete early C19 houses in this part of Cornwall. The rear courtyard with its cloister and service wing is particularly interesting.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/263 Lower Kennall Vale Mill (formerly listed as Lower Kennall Vale Mill and stonebuilt leat course) 17.1.80 GV II
Water mill for grinding grain. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite Dressings. Scantle slate roof (partly replaced with corrugated asbestos) hipped at the front, gable ends at the rear. Louvered ventilator over the ridge. Plan; Rectangular former grist mill with wheel pit for former overshot wheel on the right hand side. Later C19 extensions on the left hand side. Hub of waterwheel and internal machinery intact. There is a large internal cast iron gear wheel with wooden cogs; this wheel drives a smaller cog at either end from which there are drive shafts across the mill building (within an inaccessible basement) to drive a pair of stones and other machinery near the front of the mill, and to drive other machinery including a grain cleaner behind. The original machinery is in situ but has been added to in the later C19 and C20. Exterior; Two storeys. Simple unaltered elevations. Front has wide first Floor window opening. There are doorways into the left hand side and a blocked doorway into the rear gable end of the rear left hand extension. Original rear gable end has a ground floor window and loading doorways to the first floor and the attic. Interior; Floors roof structure and fittings survive. The floors are on several Levels. Part of the ground floor is a basement to house the axial drive shafts (see plan). The attic floor is high up in the roof space. There is a very complex arrangement of ductings, hoppers and both gear and belt driven machinery. Roof structure has lapped dovetailed struts.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/264 Mill at SW74883733 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Circa 1850. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar rectangular plan two storey blocks with original basements to house gearing, and with the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and parts of the rim of the waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window East South East front. Tall central wheel it opening flanked by two originally identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and large openings above. Part of right hand bay is fallen. Interior; not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is the last built and last used of a group of six similar mills which Survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/265 Mill at SW74903736 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early mid C19. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar rectangular plan two storey blocks with original basements to house gearing, and with the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and parts of the rim of the waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window East South East front. Tall central wheel it opening flanked by two originally identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and large openings above. Part of right hand bay is fallen. Interior; not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is one of a group of six similar mills which survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley. This mill is the only one with a gable end.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/266 Mill at SW74933738 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular mill with central wheel pit dividing 2 similar rectangular plan two storey blocks with original basements to house gearing, and with the millstone in the upper floors. The hub and parts of the rim of the waterwheel survive. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window East South East front. Tall central wheel it opening flanked by two originally identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and large openings above. Part of right hand bay is fallen. Interior; not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is one of a group of six similar mills which survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/267 Mill at SW74983746 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing two similar rectangular plan two storey blocks which originally had basements to house gearing and millstones in the upper floors. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two Window south east front. Tall central wheelpit opening flanked by two identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and large opening above. Doorways into end walls. Interior; Not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is one of a group of six similar mills which survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
2/268 Mill at SW7503374 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing 2 similar rectangular plan two storey blocks which originally had asements to house gearing and millstones in the upper floors. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window south east front. Tall central wheelpit opening flanked by two Identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and Large opening above. Doorways into end walls. Interior; Not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is one of a group of six similar mills which survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NE STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
3/269 Mill at SW75043747 GV II
Water mill for grinding gunpowder. Early C19. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Dressed granite and granite rubble. Roofless. Plan; Rectangular plan mill with central cross wheel pit dividing two similar rectangular plan two storey blocks which originally had basements to house gearing and millstones in the upper floors. Built into bank at rear and originally powered by water from leat parallel to the rear. Exterior; Two storeys (stone floor over basement). Symmetrical two window south east front. Tall central wheelpit opening flanked by two identical one window fronts. Each front has small basement opening and large opening above. Doorways into end walls. Interior; Not inspected. Possibly there is machinery and millstones. This mill is one of a group of six similar mills which survive in the beautiful Kennall Valley.
SW 73 NE STITHIANS KENNALL VALE
3/426 Bridge at SW75063747 GV II
Road brigde over river Kennall. Circa 1812. Built for Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Granite rubble with some large dressed granite Monoliths. Two span bridge with pointed cutwater upstream. Simple lintelled construction with high rubble parapets. Built to give access to the gunpowder mills qv. Higher up the valley and to the Glume stove house, qv. lower down the valley.
In the entry for item 3/270 the following amendment should be made:
SW 73 NE STITHIANS KENNALL VALE Ponsanooth Kennall Vale House and adjoining garden wall. 3/270 II GV
House, possibly former account house for Kennall Vale Gunpowder Works. Circa early C19 built in at least three phases. Some coursed dressed granite, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Shallow brick arches over the openings. Concrete tile hipped roofs. Rendered brick axial chimneys to the rear. Plan: Deep plan built in several phases. There are two rooms at the entrance front with entrance hall leading to stair hall between. Right hand room is wider. The rear of the house has dressed granite (almost ashlar) walls and is probably the original house which was later extended at the front. Exterior: Two storeys. Largely unaltered regular elevations with some hornless sashes. Nearly symmetrical short 3 window east front with doorway and window over slightly left of centre; C19 6 panel door with overlight. C20 doorcase with pediment. North front 1+3 windows mainly 16 pane sashes but at left end a C20 20 pane sash at each level, to left of straight joint in masonry. Far right a small arched casement at low level. Slightly set back from façade at right end a section of battlemented wall which runs across to the solid rock face. West front has 16 pane sash at upper level. South or garden front has four windows, some with original 16 pane sashes; bay three at ground floor has late C20 bow window with 18 pane sash, taken to floor level, and immediately right a C20 glazed conservatory, approached through C20 glazed door. Interior; partly inspected; some enriched cornices, middle room on north front has deep recess to elliptical arch at east end, and two arched recesses to opposite end, panelled shutters to ground floor rooms, stick stair. Dated 11th November 1988.
SW 73 NE STITHIANS KENNALL VALE, Ponsanooth
Glume Stove house and associated structures at approximately 40 metres west of Kennall Vale House 3/271 II GV
Glume stove buildings including chimney, boiler house, drying house and associated structures. Killas and granite rubble with granite dressings. Plan; Complete round chimney at right hand (east) and adjoining square on plan probably boiler house which adjoins larger probably drying house, both roofless and partly ruinous. The buildings are situated of the steep slope of the Kennall Valley and there is a walled platform in front. Exterior; Single storey. Left hand building has part of the front wall missing but has the jambs of former openings; right hand building is set back from the front and has a doorway left of middle. There is another doorway in the right hand return wall with access from wide doorway in high wall at far left. This building was used to dry pellets of gunpowder in preparatioin for storage. It is probably the most complete example of its type in the south and west of England. Source; Cornwall Archaeology Unit, Old County Hall, Truro.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/272 Church of St Stedian 10 7 57 GV II*
Parish church. Based on chancel probably C13, otherwise C15. Restored in C18 and heavily restored in 1873. Granite ashlar lower and south aisle, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate roofs with granite coped gable ends. Plan; Nave/chancel under one roof; C15 west tower; C15 north aisle; C19 north porch and C15 south aisle. Exterior; Complete C15, 3 stage embattled and pinnacled west tower except for C19 tracery inserted to 3 light window over 4 centred arch west doorway. Strings dividing stages and buttresses set back from the corners. C19 clock faces to middle stage. Original 3 light traceried louvered windows to upper stage. Apart from the tower the church had all its windows replaced in the C19. In the north wall are vestiges of a C18 flat arch. There is an ancient carved stone fragment over the east window of the north aisle. In the south wall is a C15 3 centred priests doorway and a C15 4 centred doorway. Interior; C15 five bay standard A (Pevsner) north arcade, with 2 centred arches; C15 6 bay south arcade with square piers with engaged shafts and squat four centred arches. The walls have been stripped of plaster; the roofs are C19 scissor braced. Note; reference has subsequently been made to the significant differences between some of the columns in the church and the capitols of some of them.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/273 Cross at east end of Church of St Stedian GV II
Cross. Pre conquest. Tall granite wheel headed monolith. On one face of the cross is a Latin cross in relief and on the other face is the Crucifixion in relief. The cross is set into a C20 square granite base (qv). “This cross was resited from Sewrah Mill in 1910 by permission of Captain William Tremayne of Carclew “(qv).
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/274 Chest tomb at approximately 4 metres south of west end of Church of St Stedian GV II
Chest tomb. C18 or early C19. Granite ashlar chest set on large dressed granite base. Eroded freestone lid with indecipherable inscription. Rectangular on plan. The chest has a chamfered plinth.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/275 Chest tomb at approximately 5 metres south of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Chest tomb. C18. dressed granite monolithic sides and lid. Rectangular on plan. The chest has a chamfered plinth and sides have panels with torus moulded borders and hearts in relief. There appears to be no inscription. A plain panel at one end may have been fitted with an inscribed slate.
SW73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/276 Martin headstones at approximately 6 metres north west of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Two headstones, C18 and early C19. Headstone with three sided top to A Edmond, S. Martin died 1789 aged 69 and wife Mary, died 1818 aged 84. Headstone. Headstone with new head to B. Edward Martin, died 1804 aged 52. Both headstones are granite monoliths with inscribed slates inset.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/277 Bath headstone at approximately 8 metres south of west of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Headstone. C18. To William Bath, died 1792 aged 59, also Jane his wife, died 1812 aged 77. Granite monolithic headstone with rounded head and rectangular inscribed slate inset.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/278 Francis headstone at approximately 10 metres south east of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Headstone. Early C18. To James, son of James and Jane Francis. Died February 7th 1818 aged 4 months. Granite monolith with shaped head with an inscribed slate inset on one side.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/279 Reed and Hocker tomb at approximately 12 metres south of south doorway of Church of St Stedian GV II
Chest tomb. Early C19. To Thomas Reed of Trevales (qv), died 1812 aged 77 and Thomas Hocker died 1855 aged 85. Granite monolithic chamfered base, granite monolithic sides with projecting corners and granite monolithic lid with moulded cornice. Rectangular on plan. The inscription is on a round medallion attached to the lid.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/280 War memorial at approximately 15 metres east of Church of St Stedian GV II
War memorial. Circa 1918. To those who died in the 1914-18 World War and Later inscribed to those who died in the 1938-45 World War. Dressed Granite octagonal plan base and Latin cross set on a large stepped base with canted front, the other sides (of what would otherwise be an octagon) are enclosed by semicircular on plan churchyard wall behind. The cross itself has a sword in relief at the front and the tapered shaft stands on a bell shaped base on a tall plinth. [There are slate plaques let into the surrounding wall either side of the cross listing the names of those killed from the Parish in each war.]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/281 Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway at approximately 15 metres east of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway. Circa early C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Wide gateway piercing churchyard wall. Within the gateway on either side of a flagged walk are stone settles and in the middle of the walk is a coffin rest with rounded ends. Gate piers are square on plan granite monoliths and there is an iron overthrow linking their heads. Settles have dressed granite seats and low backs with granite copings. Pair of original wrought iron gates have roundels to the lock rail, round arched bracing below and form a segmental arch with their top rails when closed. The closely set bars have arrow headed finials. Overthrow forms a round arch with a lamp bracket over the middle and there is a bifurcated scrolled detail.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/282 Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway at approximately 30 metres north west of Church of St Stedian GV II
Gate piers, gates and walls flanking gateway. Circa early C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Wide gateway piercing churchyard wall. Within the gateway are shallow depth stone settles and between the settles a rectangular coffin rest. Gate piers are square on plan granite monoliths with rounded pyramidial heads. Settles have dressed granite seats and low backs with dressed granite copings. Coffin rest has sloping sides. Pair of original wrought iron gates have roundels to the lock rail, round arched bracing below and form segmental arch with their top rails when closed. The closely set bars have arrow headed finials.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/283 Vestry at approximately 50 metres south west of Church of St Stedian (formerly listed as Building in SW corner Churchyard) 10 7 75 GV II
Vestry. Probably C18 incorporating medieval fragments from the Church. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate pyramidial roof. Square single cell plan with doorway in the east wall and window in the North Wall. Exterior; Single storey. Thicker walls up to impost string. West entrance front has central doorway with squat two centred arch or reused arch stones over. Short granite coped return wall in front of the left side. Right hand (north) Wall has small window with reused C15 cinquefoil tracery. Interior; Not inspected.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/284 Churchyard walls to West, north and east of Church of St Stedian. GV II
Churchyard walls. C18 and C19. Granite rubble with dressed granite hog’s back copings. [Part of this wall collapsed adjoining the school in 2004 and was rebuilt by PCC in 2005]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/285 Gate piers and flanking walls at road entrance to the White Cottage (former vicarage) GV II
Gate piers and flanking walls. Probably early C19. Granite ashlar walls and rusticated granite piers with dressed granite wall with granite coping at the left hand (west) end and granite rubble wall at the other end. Wide gateway has square on plan piers linked by short lengths of straight wall to concave quadrant on plan walls with square on plan terminal piers. On the right is a narrower blocked gateway with another pier on its right. The piers have ramped pyramidal caps and the lower walls have sloping copings.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHHIANS
2/287 Seven Stars Public House GV II
Public house. Circa early C19. Dressed granite front, otherwise rubble with granite dressings. Asbestos slate roof with axial valley between. Brick chimneys over the gable ends. Plan; Double depth plan under two parallel roofs. Originally two rooms at the front (some partitions removed in the C20) flanking a central entrance hall leading to a stair hall between large rear service rooms. Exterior; Two storeys. Symmetrical three window west front with central doorway. C20 door. Original 16 pane hornless sashes to first floor left and right, otherwise horned copies. Interior; Some alterations in the C20 but most of the original structure is Intact and there are some original features including and open well stair with turned newels and stick balusters.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STITHIANS
2/288 Crellow House GV II
House. Circa early mid C19.Stuccoed. Grouted scantle slate hipped roof with Wide eaves over main part of the house, replaced with asbestos slate over former service wing. Stuccoed chimneys over the side walls with C19 octagonal clay pots. Plan; Main house is a rectangular double depth plan with two reception Rooms flanking a central hall leading to stair hall between rear rooms. Deep service wing adjoins at rear left hand corner (now separate house). Exterior; Two storeys. Overall five window north front. To the right the principal symmetrical three window front with central doorway. Plinth, moulded hoods on consoles(ground floor), mid floor band and giant Doric pilasters at the corners. Pairs of circa late C19 early C20 French windows to ground floor openings. Original overlight with marginal panes. Circa late C19 or C20 four pane horned sashes to original first floor openings. Rear has tall original stair sash with glazing bars and fanlight head. Interior; Not inspected except for stair hall which has original open well string stair with stick balusters. [Curious that the coach house, an integral part of this dwelling, is not mentioned in the listing]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS STTIHIANS
2/289 Guide post at SW735366 [Gribbas Corner]
Guide post. Circa early C20. Cast iron. Round on plan post carrying three adjustable pointers surmounted by a spike headed finial. The pointers have integral quadrant brackets, slightly rounded ends and embossed inscriptions. Left hand pointer; HELSTON 8 ½. Middle Pointer MABE 3 ½. Right hand pointer STITHIANS CHURCH ½. REDRUTH 5 ¼
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/290 Tretheague House including ice house, well, closet and walled garden at rear. GV II*
Small country house including ice house, well, closet and walled garden at rear. Circa early C18. Rusticated granite ashlar front, otherwise granite rubble with granite and brick dressings. Dry Delabole slate hipped roof behind embattle parapet. Battlements are C20, possibly there was originally a moulded parapet cornice. Two tall brick chimneys over each side wall. Plan; Double depth plan. Original plan intact except that a partition has been Inserted left of the entrance to create a central entrance hall beside former Larger hall on the left; parlour on the right; central rear entrance hall with parlour on its left, stair hall on its right and service room and stair at far right. There is a basement kitchen and vaulted wine cellars. Exterior; Two storeys plus attics over basement. Symmetrical five window east north east principal front with central doorway approached by flight of granite steps with probably original wrought iron railings. Doorway has Gibbs surround and original panelled doors with integral blind fanlight (now glazed). Windows are mostly original 12 pane hornless sashes with wide glazing bars and much original crown glass. There is one copy at the front. Rear has original doors and several original windows including fanlight head to stair window. Principal rear doorway is approached by a granite bridge with its original wrought iron railings. Interior; has many features and is virtually unaltered throughout since C18. Entrance hall has fine plaster ceiling with modillions in the cornice and Ionic doorway between entrance hall and hall (now front entrance hall). Stair hall part has open well open string stair with three turned balusters per tread and a ramped handrail wreathed over the newel and there is bolection moulding to the wall panels and under the landing. There are two panels with eared architrave and scrolled pediments. Plaster ceiling over the stair has dentils and modillions to the cornice and good quality Rococo detail to the central panel. Principal front parlour has panelled walls with fielded panelling; an arched niche; C18 chimney piece and intricate Rococo ceiling. Other rooms inspected also have good quality C18 features including panelled doors, architraves and chimney pieces. Basement kitchen has C18 dresser and the cellars have brick barrel vaults. Behind the house is a walled garden with a retaining wall at the front forming a passage between the garden and the basement of the house. Built into the bank of the garden is a large ice house and a covered well entrance. The ice house has a chamfered granite doorway. Walls are granite rubble and there is some brick laid to English bond. Some granite copings. Adjoining outside the right hand wall is a rectangular rubble closet with a slate roof. Closet was originally cleaned by a leat. Set into the garden are two original oval granite monolithic ornamental or fish ponds.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/291 Sundial at approximately 20 metres in front of Tretheague House. GV II
Sundial. C18. Dressed granite with brass clock face and pointer. Octagonal on plan shaft (possibly reused) surmounted by a projecting square edged cap with sundial set in the middle.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/292 Gate piers at approximately 50 metres south west of Tretheague House GV II
Gate piers. C18 Dressed granite and granite rubble. Two square on plan gate piers with monolithic inner jambs and moulded caps with ball finials.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/293 Former stables at approximately 50 metres south west of Tretheague House GV II
Former stables and carriage house with hay loft over and mounting block, now converted to accommodation. Granite rubble walls with granite moorstone dressings. Grouted scantle hipped roof with C20 bellcote over the middle. C20 ogee gutters. Plan; Central former carriage house with former stables and probably tack room at the sides. Built into the bank at rear with rear loading doorway to the former hay loft/granary. First floor now subdivided and some of the openings at the front are C20 or remodelled in C20. Exterior; Two storeys fairly regular east north east front with wide carriage doorway slightly left of middle. There is an ashlar course with voussoirs. Under the eaves are two tiers of pigeon holes at left and right. Carriage house Has pair of old boarded doors; there is a ventilated door to the doorway on its Left and a barred two light and other openings have C20 12 pane horned sashes. Interior; Not inspected. Mounting block at far left of front is dressed granite moorstone and has steps On its right. Later granite platform on its left. [These buildings have been granted Listed Building Consent and Planning Permission for conversion to dwellings for holiday let]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/294 Cross at approximately 200 metres south east of Tretheague House GV II
Cross. Pre Conquest. Tall granite wheelhead monolith with lug on either Side of the neck. There is a cross patee in relief to either face of the wheelhead and there is incised intersecting decoration to either side of the shaft.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/295 Tretheague Farmhouse and cottage including adjoining outbuildings (Formerly listed as Tretheague Farmhouse) 10.7.57 GV II
Farmhouse and former farmhouse. C17 extended with new self contained Farmhouse circa mil-late C19. C17 house is slurried rubble and had a fairly Steep (eaves heightened circa mid-late C19) dry Delabole slate roof and there is a very tall rubble stack at the right hand gable end. C19 house has granite rubble walls with granite dressings, slurried scantle slate roof and brick chimneys over the gable ends. There are cast iron ogee section gutters to both houses. Plan; Double depth farmhouse on the left and wider single depth plan C17 Former farmhouse built on lower ground adjoining on the right. C19 house Has two equal sized rooms at the front flanking s central entrance hall leading To a central stair hall between back kitchen on its left and pantry on its right. C17 house has small room on the left and large room on the right. The floors And probably the roof structure(not inspected) were replaced circa late C19. A single storey diary possibly older than the house adjoins on the left side of the farmhouse and built in front of this is a single storey probably wash house
or possibly piggery with integral swill kitchen. Exterior; Two storey. Farmhouse on the left has symmetrical three window Front with central doorway. Original four panel door. Possibly original 12 pane horned sash on right of doorway, otherwise horned copies. C17 house front on the right is an irregular two window front, partly rebuilt probably in C18. Originally chamfered doorway left of middle (now fitted with C20 window). Small window openings. First floor window left of doorway is a circa early C19 12 pane sash, the other windows are circa late C19 horned sashes. Right hand corner of front is splayed. Interior; Farmhouse interior not inspected. C17 house interior has C19 carpentry and joinery. Original fireplace partly blocked.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/296 Barn immediately north west of Tretheague Farmhouse GV II
Barn, probably granary or hayloft over shippons, circa late C18 or early C19. Dressed granite front otherwise granite rubble. Scantle slate roof with gable Ends. Plan; Rectangular plan with splayed corner at the front left. There were originally probably two similar sized shippons on the ground floor (now one room) and there is a large loft above. Exterior; Two storeys. Slightly irregular east north east front with three Windows to the first floor and four windows to the ground floor. Doorways Towards the left and towards right. Loading doorway over left hand doorway, window over other doorway. Old ventilated and ledged doors and old ventilated window in original small openings. Interior; Has old floor structure and probably original roof structure (not Inspected).
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TRETHEAGUE
2/297 Tretheague Mill II
Miller’s house. Probably late C18, extended circa early C19. Granite rubble Walls. Scantle slate roof at the front, corrugated asbestos sweeping lower at the rear. External rubble stack with brick chimney at the right hand gable end and hipped end on the left. Cast iron ogee gutters. Plan; Three room range with shallow service rooms at rear. Original double Millers house on the right with its kitchen/living room on the right hand and Parlour on the left. Extension on the left has fireplace for former copper for Former use as a wash house but may once have contained mill machinery. Exterior; Two storeys. Overall three window south east front. Original nearly Symmetrical two window front with central doorway on the right and irregular One window front of circa early C19 extension on the left. Original doorway has C19 four panel door, other doorway has ledged door. Windows are circa late C19 six pane horned sashes or horned copies (except two light casement at far left). Interior; Fairly unaltered interior with much of the C19 structure and joinery remaining. [This house has subsequently been rehabilitated in the late C20, with what changes is unknown]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES
2/298 Trevales House GV II
Small country house. Circa mid C18, extended circa late C19. Granite ashlar Walls at the front, dressed granite extensions, otherwise painted rubble. Dry Delabole slate roofs; half hipped over original house towards left, Otherwise hipped and with coped or pedimented gables. Rendered brick stacks over either side of the principal part of the original house and at the rear of extension, and there is a large external stack over a window bay at the right hand end. Plan; Double depth plan. Original house has two reception rooms at the front; a parlour on the left and a former parlour on the right, remodelled in C19 to make a two storey galleried hall and incorporating former central entrance hall. The original stair hall is between the large rear rooms with the original stone flagged kitchen on the left. There is an integral one room wide service wing on the left and there are two cellars; a large vaulted cellar under the left hand side of the house and a smaller cellar under the stairs. Circa late C19 a large cross wing was added on the right of the C18 house. This deeper wing is two rooms deep and has projecting two storey bay windows. Exterior; Two storeys. 1:3:1 bay south south west front. Left hand bay is lower and is a coped gable end of the service wing. Next three bays are a symmetrical three window entrance front with central doorway. There is a plinth and parapet string and an ashlar parapet (extended in C19 over the extension) but the parapet now forms the eaves of the roof, the wide window openings are spanned by very shallow keyed arches. Original panelled door and eared doorcase within circa early C20 glazed porch with low pitched gable and shaped barge board. The windows are circa late C18 paired 12 pane sashes with some original glass except for horned copy at ground floor left. Wide C19 wing projects forward on the right and has central 14 mullioned window with side lights in two storey projecting bay surmounted by a triangular pediment with moulded cornice. There is a similar window bay to the right hand return wall, lighting the rear room. Rear has C18 paired sashes and one horned copy. Built out in front of former stair window is a large four light transommed window with round arch headed lights an coloured glass. Interior; Largely remodelled when extended and most of the features including plaster ceiling cornices, chimney pieces and cantilevered d=gallery over the hall are of this period. Some C18 features survive however, including a dog leg stair with closed strong and column turned banisters, stone flagged floor in the kitchen and brick vaulted cellars with their original storage compartments.
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2/299 Mounting block at approximately 20 metres south west of Trevales House. GV II
Mounting block. C18. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Simple mounting Block built against a rubble wall. The steps have round nosings.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES
2/300 Gate piers and flanking walls at approximately 35 metres south east of Trevales house. GV II At approximately 35 metres south east of Trevales House.GV II
Gate piers and flanking wall. Circe early C18. Granite ashlar in diminishing courses with dressed granite plinth and copings, granite monolithic gate piers and ahslar terminal piers. Square on plan gate piers are flanked by concave segmental on plan walls and large square on plan terminal piers. Gate piers are round headed, copings are sloped up to an apex and the terminal piers have squat pyrimidial caps.
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES
2/302 (where is 2/301?) Gate piers, flanking walls and stile at approx 200 metres east south east of Trevales House. GV II
Gate piers, flanking walls and stile. Circa early C19. Granite ashlar walls, granite monolithic piers. Wider gateway with square on plan piers flanked by convex segmental on plan wall on the left and straight wall pierced by opening with grid stile, on the right. Round headed piers, some original copings. [The flanking walls here have been allowed to fall into serious disrepair in recent years and would benefit from urgent restoration being listed.]
SW 73 NW STITHIANS TREVALES
2/303 Trevales Farmhouse including garden walls and gate piers. GV II
Farmhouse, front garden walls and gate piers. Circa early C19. Coursed granite front with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate hipped roof with central cross valley at rear. Brick chimneys over side walls. Cast iron ogee gutters. Plan; Double depth plan with two similar sized front rooms flanking a cross passage leading to stair hall between rear service rooms, back kitchen on the left and pantry on the right. Exterior; Two storeys. Symmetrical three window south front with central doorway. C20 door. Original 12 pane hornless sashes. Original windows also at rear and there is an original 16 pane 2 light casement to the right hand wall of the pantry. Interior; Not inspected. Low coursed granite wall surrounds rectangular front garden at front. There is a gateway with granite monolithic piers on the left hand wall.